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Monday, February 25, 2008

Hello Dolly!

My favorite trade show is back! Le Salon de l'agriculture (the International Agricultural Show) opened this Saturday and will last until March 2nd. This show is often called "the largest farm in the world" for its spreads out on almost 150 000 sq meters (1 614 586 sq feet) and shelters no less than 4,000 farm animals ! Even though it's a trade show everybody can come and attend the "cow beauty pageant", eat one of the many specialties from our provinces and meet some of the few farmers that are left in France (3.6% of the active population...).

I thought I filled the lines in from margin to margin . Must work on that. I gladly take the bronze. YOU WON AGAIN LYNN! Congrats to the fastest finger from continent to continent. Your're queen of the Worrrrrrrrrrrrrld!

LOL, I'm not ERIC! Just a rich philanthropist. Lynn, send your mailing address to Eric, he is expecting it from the winner and he will forward it to me so you can have your own.....I LOVE PDP mug from his "store". A lovely gift we all should own.

Lynn LOOOOOOL. Your two first comments were so good to read!! You wrote the first as if there were no price to win, no stakes, but you burnt to scream! Didn't you??Your comment is in alignment with the Constitution. At least, you've my voice as a member of the Constituent Assembly. But wait for the others girls, they have to give their voice or not: it's called democracy. One of the bases of the PDP Constitution.

Eric, you're lucky to go to the Salon de l'agriculture, I like this event but it's crowded the first days... Did you meet Mr Sarkozy?! Okay, j'arrête, ou plutôt, je ne commence pas. ;)

Your photo is very nice, I can imagine you putting your arm in the fence to take the picture closely. The yellows shades.

About the race, it's unfair, I was at the cinema! But you know what? I'm first in a category anyway: i'm the first UNDER 22 years old who's posting! LOL.

Lynn I'll be up til 11, 12pm tops. What I really like is the pre show, when all those gorgeous gowns parede down the red carpet.

Hey! you should be there, you are a winner tonight!

Let's see, I'd be there as your contender, sitting right next to you (wearing a silver Dior backless long dress and Louboutin heels) at the Shrine Auditorium. As they announces you as the winner of the Golden Finger category and the camera closes up I'd put up my best "looser but yet supportive competitor" face, clap and congratulate you. Then we'd watch you on stage giving your speech, thanking Eric for this wonderful opportunity and of course all the other candidates that are so amazing you feel proud to be competing with them. Of course you would continue to talk and talk as they start playing that music to indicate your time is over and kick you off the stage. You would walk away crying and trembling all in awe with your award in your hands. Oh so much emotion for one night!

LOL Monica! That's some fantasy you've got going on there he he. You would look far better, slim and pretty, than i on the red carpet I promise you! I would wear black. Simple and faithful, black. Chanel. Bathed in Jean Paul Gautier he he! Or maybe No. 5, oh no maybe Coco. Yes perhaps Coco. LOL. Shoes would be black, elegant but walkable. I'd be photographing everyone else as i walked, though especially Eric! Ooh ooh just saw some of the gowns on Sky News! Ooh ooh. Pretty golden one, but it was whisked off the screen before i could note it. Pah.

I can smell the hay! A wonderful photo Eric with the creams and golds, the contrasting details of the ram, his sculpted horns against his mop of hair. Farm life can be beautiful, really(but one might want to skip the burgers for lunch).

Exciting news, the Academy Awards are about to begin. Marion Cotillard's gown, just breathtaking. But (yikers) what is Rebecca Miller wearing? (sorry, not wanting to offend anyone who likes it, just a classic gown please for this girl).

She won! She won!Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for best actress!!! How great is that, another french actress won the Oscar! I know she has won other awards this year for her role as Piaf, but the Oscar is such a thrill

HELLO Louis la Vache!! Long time no read! How appropriate for you to show up for the subject of this post. I miss seeing you here and your comments.

I'm just back after a bit of an absence and am trying to catch up on the photos and comments. If I can sum it up (correct me if I'm wrong):

- the photos are excellent (as always)- there is now an official/unofficial PDP Consitution- people are rushing to be "first"- someone has a "golden finger"- there is a legal advisor to all of this- the male commentors have mostly disappeared for fear of being attacked by the mob

Congratulations to Marion Cotillard for winning the Oscar for Best Actress La Vie en Rose! Magnifique! Earlier in the day, some young twits on the E! channel compared Edith Piaf to Brittany Spear. Mon Dieu! While they both had difficult lives, there was one big difference between them....Edith Piaf could sing!

Alors..Marion Cotillard has won the Oscar for La Mome I wept with Joy!!! This has been the culmination of so much love for Piaf and so many memories...Merci...Incroyable!! She deserved this so much...my faith in the Academy voters has been restored!! Merci...merci!!

I'm seeing little clips of the Oscars on the news but the presenters are forgetting to say titles, instead they say 'best film'. ?? Hopeless presenting - BBCNews24 - Anyway they just showed a clip about a coin toss situation. The shopkeeper was utterly understandable and compelling and i want to see it. What's the title please? Oh and Eric, forget Dolly, what we need is a clone of YOU, one for each of us!

I looked and looked at this picture, then I realised - this is Paris. So, of course it is a perm. Hairdressers haave a natural talent for getting on your goat, so this is a sheep, not that much difference.

Impressive ram! I don't think it would have stood for any perm, Ham! It seems shocking that there are so few farmers. . .is that because agriculture has pretty much been taken over by corporate farming, like in the States? Or, do you import farm goods? From the air it certainly seems like there are a lot of farms! :-)Watching the Academy Awards last night, I was happy to see the overwhelmed reaction of the lovely Marion Cotillard as her name was called. I saw the film and was amazed at the performance. What did French film goers think of her portrayal?-KimSeattle Daily Photo

Congradulations, LYNN. Your gift is on the way from the PDP Boutique. I would have given you the finger, but the "I love PDP mug" was so much more appropriate.So was winning on Oscar night. Your speech brought tears to my eyes......

Michael, the film is out in DVD and it is really good. I found it a bit hard to follow and if I had not read a biography of hers a few years ago I would not have followed the plot well. But then I am not that clever!

It is a brilliant film and it will make you go the shops and buy all the Edith Piaff you can afford!

Thank you SO much, Phx!! I can't wait for that and will feature it on my blog when it arrives. he he. Sniff, snivel.

Michael i haven't seen the film either. Wish i could pop over, we could go together! No no, the rest of you, calm down, nothing saucy just an evening sitting at the cinema with Michael, what fun. What's to regret in that? Nothing.

Is "La môme" really a film to see? It's absolutely not the kind of movie I like but I really appreciate Marion Cotillard, she's a very good actress... I guess if she won is because the film was great.

"No country for old men" is inspired by the novel of Cormac McCarthy, an excellent American writer who, during all his career, stayed far from the fame. I like his books! The film makers are the Brothers Cohen, it's probably a huge film. Go to see it if you can Monica. I take the all responsibility on my shoulders ;)

Guille I have already seen No country for old men. I enjoyed it despite all the violence. I saw most of the nominees, I love going to the movies.I strongly recommend La Môme, but then again I think you have to be a little bit into Piaf and her songs, otherwise it might not be that interesting.Marion Cotillard's performance is definetely worth watching it

Michael: Camille is a girl (apparently) who demonstrated to be very interested in knowing who you are. Of course we told her only nice things about you, how handsome you look, smart and funny (see, we look after you when you're gone).

So there you are, she's a candidate for your coer. Is it vacant? Oh I bet you're the kind of guy who says "my heart is never vacant, I'm in love with life..."

Monica LOL you're not nice with Michael! What's more, you forgot to say that "Camille" was almost the anagram of "Michael" and that the girls thought they were the same person ;)You're right, Piaf is not my cup of tea.I saw last night "Sweeney Todd,the barber of Fleet Street", it was great! No morality, the good ones died and the bad ones lived lol. The photography was amazing anyway.

A joint sulk is a good idea! But how to sulk on a blog?? Do we have to stop to write? Do we have to ignore people when they shout at us? Do we have to invent an encoded language?..finally, it's tiring to sulk.

Tut tut girls! Resorting to blackmail now?By visiting my blog, Camille left several traces (IP number lead to town, network used to log on etc)so using the traffic software installed in my blog (nothing uncommon amongst bloggers Eric uses it too) I guessed who it was. But I am not about to reveal his/her identity ;)Michael... be nice to me...

So, we ARE TOO SMART Monica! Look!You're wondering if Camille is a girl or a boy..."the girls hope to understand what we're writing" or something like that..."write me the identity of her/him on facebook"... Hehe You see lynn, it's not so difficult.

Petrea, Louis la Vache is sad to report that Lynn is right! Cow-tipping is almost a national sport in rural Wisconsin! That's why Louis wrote that he had to look around and make sure he wasn't in Wisconsin. For a moment there, he thought he might have been transported to a farm somewhere outside of Appleton....